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How to Taper Off Opioids After Surgery
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2020
- If you are taking opioids after surgery, you will eventually need to slowly reduce and stop taking them. This is called “tapering.” Watch our video to learn more.
Resources:
A Patient’s Guide to Opioid Tapering: www.hss.edu/co...
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This helped me with my fentanyl addiction. I substituted with another weaker opiod only for a few days so i could manage withdrawal while the fentanyl left my body. Amazing tapering is the way
What was the other drug ? Sub? Thx
Agree dude.
Even when I’ve had a bender on opioids like Oxy or codeine for a month, I taper down over a few days or a week, while also going to the gym, showering few times a day, focusing on work, etc.
Just allows you to get back on track without the pain.
Anyone wanting to come off pills, my experience was going from reducing the number of pills you’re taking daily, then eventually I was just taking a half at a time, then off completely. Best way to do it imo.
You need to want to come off though.
@@coreyworthingtonii9230 Did you not feel any withdrawal symptoms?
@@robsmith9093 When I haven’t tapered off correctly, yes. Lol
I was doing like 20mg Oxy a day for about 2 weeks and tried to taper off with just 60mg codeine the following day and I felt shit for like 3 days. Won’t make that mistake again.
Thank you for this information! Will help me after my hip surgery.
This helped me after my surgery! Thank you!
"comfortable" YA RIGHT!!! try Tylenol and ibuprofen instead. With opioids you eventually have to "pay the piper"
The best comment. Ain't no comfortable way out. You gotta pay the piper for all the fun times and noddy days 😂😂😂😂
Honestly if you are diligent and take your time with the taper, you can avoid any major suffering. I've done it before and am going to have to do it again unfortunately. The hardest part is sticking to the taper and not increasing your dose after you get down to a low dose because you know your tolerance is low again and you can get a good buzz.
Thank you. IV been on morphine for over a year du to back surgery. Before and after the surgery. I hope this method will help me
Solid method. Short and to the point 👍
I’m on my second day of tapering. Been using percs for months for my sore throat. I was doing like 20-30 percs a day. Now I’m down to 10-15 a day. So half on my second day. Still really feeling the withdrawal symptoms
How did you get percs for a sore throat? Street or Dr? I need a Doc like that lol. But either way I hope your taper went smoothly.
@@ReapingTheHarvest street. But yeah been a month clean now. Crazy I remember writing this comment. Thinking I wouldn’t be able to get clean, but here I’ am clean. Was a roughy few weeks tho
@@natebrandon4461I am there but at away less degree . I was mixing morphine and perc 10s eating about 7-8 pills . I threw out my morphine and barely took a perc and went thru withdrawls . My dr said not too and put me back on percs to slowly taper . Now I take 1 every 8 hours … hoping to get it to 2 every 12 soon . I did 2 days of nothing and had it bad. I feel like went backwards again
@@kg-Whatthehelliseventhat I’m good man. I’m two months clean. Still have the cravings here n there but good. But you’ll make it man. First few days is tough..but you got it bro.
@@natebrandon4461 right on. Yea, rt now I'm on IV morphine in the hospital and have was using pills as proscribed for a few years now but I am tired of this damn leash. My goal is to reduce and not have to take multiple times a day but when I have a bad day or a few bad hours, rather, then have a strong dose in my "toolbox."
I get 10 mg/iv per hour baseline
3mg/iv bolis every 100 minutes
I'm going to try to drop 1 mg/iv hourly every few days. Right now it is not noticeable but I'm sure as I get lower and lower it will be noticeable.
What was your experience like time wise? Did you use suboxone?
I can go home with the pca or with pills but it is time I stop being a slave to this stuff. Thank you for your comments.
Took a year to do it, after 13 years. Didn't much follow any particular plan, just something I had to do for myself.
Did you have withdrawals!?
@@robsmith9093 Yeah. But it didn't take very long to get over, a few weeks or so maybe. The first few days were a little rough but each day got better until you wake up one day and feel fine. Didn't much like the anxiety.
I mean if you're able to do it how they say, I mean maybe not.........I wasn't able to get down to the lowest amount they recommend, I stopped on maybe a double lowest recommended dose or something like that.
@@samuelblackburn7920 I’m on my second day detoxing about to be my third. I’m thinking about taking a little bit to feel better than wein off it slowly like that. It takes 2-5 days and I’m only feeling jitterS in my legs and restlessness.
@@robsmith9093 It definitely gets better. Just don't go up past lowest dose, will screw up any progress. A little creek in comparison to the ocean of people's lives.
Thank you for this video It helped me a lot 💯💯
Im short term, fentanyl and oxy after surgery already makes me nauseous after and sick feeling.
Hoping I can get by without it
Very good!
Thank you! So helpful!
Can long term go for tapering every 2 weeks?
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